it started at midnight. mississippi governor, he pardoned four convicted killers on his way out from office. they were all serving life sentences in murder cases. all of them had also worked in a special program at the governor s mansion. and i m not sure if you saw these pictures, but awesome. check this out. this is a tanker with ice cutters trying to plow through the alaskan ice because it s got a critical shipment of fuel. and it s headed towards an alaskan city that really, really needs that fuel and could run out if they can t cut the ice in time. things we take for granted. i know. and a bama blowout, crimson tide wins the national title. tweet revenge against lsu. i have no idea what she is talking about. i don t know anything about football. i follow this one. did you? yeah. well, i m lying. spl say it was boring. was it boring? it wasn t boring. i guess it depends on where you re from and what you think. first up, the new hampshire primary is fin
reimburse them in return. so if you averaged out all these checks across the current u.s. population, it would mean roughly 70% of americans are getting some kind of government payment. but we do know that many individuals actually get multiple checks. bret? bret: shannon, thank you. as you look live outside the capitol, it looks peaceful and calm. inside people are scurrying about. we ve just got word from the house majority leader s office that there will be a vote on speaker boehner s bill tonight. we ve also gotten word that a handful of conservative members are right now going to pray in the members chapel. they ve been asked if they re voting yes. they said no. there s still nos, but they re joining in prayer with others. stay with us.
checks across the current u.s. population, it would mean roughly 70% of americans are getting some kind of government payment. but we do know that many individuals actually get multiple checks. bret? bret: shannon, thank you. as you look live outside the capitol, it looks peaceful and calm. inside people are scurrying about. we ve just got word from the house majority leader s office that there will be a vote on speaker boehner s bill tonight. we ve also gotten word that a handful of conservative members are right now going to pray in the members chapel. they ve been asked if they re voting yes. they said no. there s still nos, but they re joining in prayer with others. stay with us.
as for unemployment benefits, they soared from about one-quarter of 1% of personal income in 2006 to more than 1% last year. government payment, especially jobless benefit hinge partly on the economic outlook and we ll gate key reading thursday when the gdp is released in washington, steve centanni, fox news. consumer confidence is up this month. conference board says concern about job eased since march. home prices fell in 19 of 20 majorsies surveyed in february. prices at many places are at the lowest point since the housing bubble burst. the dow rebounded today nicely gaining 115-1/2. the s&p was up 12. nasdaq finished ahead 22. coming up next, a man two wants to bring the fiscal policy he is used in the midwest to the rest of the nation. a bit later, hitting the trail with president bush and some american heroes. for pain?
look, i have been in business and when you subsidize things doesn t work out through the free market system very well and the that he has never lobbied for some special treatment or for a government payment. of course, except when he did turns out he got $75,000 to build a railway line directly to his factory. that s pretty convenient. that is a federal subsidy and a handout he rather enjoys when it goes straight to his business and turns out he has gotten $5 million in government-issued bonds which have lower interest rates to help build his business in the first place to build the fact troy, hire people, build machines and in the lower interest rates had hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings. so ron johnson does not like it when you get a government handout, but he love it is when he gets a government handout. finally, sharron angle from nevada, she says, oh, my god, i